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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
4
A sweeping narrative recalls a year of death and fear from yellow fever in the city. Citizens, bankers, doctors, and mothers respond as coffins run low and the hurricane-like storm wrecks the coast, with ships cast ashore and waves roaring into the bay.
The narrative depicts a flood and pestilence that decimated St Joseph, wiping out the population and leaving the city depopulated. Survivors fled as ships abandoned port, graves overflowed, and the waterfront fell into ruin as a hurricane reshaped the landscape. Three years later visitors recall the vanished capital of Florida.
A few surviving relics mark the long past town of St. Joseph a mangled bell from turpentine work wires a steel locomotive axle and ruined tombs crown the graveyard remnants of a once thriving community. The text recalls a powerful man undone by hurricanes and a house built on sand as the storm descended.
Advertises bringing healing balsamic air from pine forest regions to homes for catarrh asthma and hay fever. Claims an Australian dry air cure and prompts readers to ask Charles Rhodes about Hyomei. Outfit including inhaler offered for $1.
The storm described as Vurticanes has battered the shore, leaving ruined foundations and submerged sidewalks. Rugged bayonets guard old stone remains while brick debris scatters inland through pine forests. A rural rail line experiences the same sea air, promising refund if claimed remedies fail to cure coughs and asthma.
John Wright of Ithaca area sold a record clover seed harvest to Ithaca Roller Mills. From thirty acres he yielded 140 bushels with 20 pounds of Mammoth clover seed, retaining twelve bushels for seeding and netting $1,010.08 after selling the rest. Ohio Indiana crops are strong but Michigan farmers reap profit despite labor costs.
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